Fast unto death against Islam
I wonder with curiosity, are the students taught history at schools these days? It was late A.K. Fazlul Haque who presented the idea for a separate homeland for the Muslims of the sub-continent at the historic Lahore Resolution in 1940. With this policy in mind, Pakistan came into being with East and West Pakistan.
Later on, East Pakistan emerged as an independent Bangladesh in the year 1971. One of the founding principles of Bangladesh was secularism, which implies that the state would not intervene into the religious beliefs of the people. Subsequently with the change in government, this policy of secularism was amended favoring the vast majority of the Muslim population, which is more than 80 percent.
Now the group "Sector Commanders Forum", favoring secularism, declared a program of fast unto death, if the policy is not reversed. It is an irony of fate that these Sector Commanders who are vowing to fast unto death, happens to have come from the same place where from late Sher-e-Bangla A.K.F. Fazlul Haque came, who is also regarded as one of the founding fathers of Bangladesh. This is perhaps the most racist outburst against Islam made in the history of Bangladesh since independence in 1971.
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